Bücher von Richard Osborne

Warum macht Philosophie machen Leuten Kopfschmerzen, warum treibt sie andere geradezu in die Verzweiflung? Warum halten Sie die einen für gefährlich und subversiv, die anderen dagegen für total irrelevant?

Do you know your animus from your anomie? Puzzled by all that jargon at university? Now there's no need to be. "Megawords" provides definitions for the key terms every student in the humanities and social sciences needs to know, from the new (cyberpunk) to the established (empiricism).

This book traces the evolution of the recording format from its roots in the first sound recording experiments, to its survival in the world of digital technologies. Each chapter explores a different element: the groove, the disc shape, the label, vinyl itself, the album, the single, the b-side and the 12" single, the sleeve.